It is important to carefully check and verify your designs for promotional tee shirts before putting them to print. From labels to packaging, from branding to product descriptions, accuracy and consistency are key in maintaining brand reputation. By taking time to review the printed pieces prior to production ensures that each item you produce will uphold your required quality standards with any errors corrected quickly and efficiently. 

Here is an amusing example where someone has forgotten to check, cross-reference and research design before hitting the "go" button to print a few thousand tee shirts. The result of this oversight has created a bit of controversy.

Minimalist or Complicated Designs

Creating designs for promotional tee shirts is so very easy. Even for those who are not creative, you may easily choose plans which many will consider stylish due to the popularity of minimalists designs. For those who do have an artistic eye, then designing a complicated graphic is easy.

In both instances, sophisticated graphics, or a simple minimalist design needs to be checked. Ask a few colleagues and do a bit of research (the internet can be convenient when it comes to this).

Afterwards, submit the graphic to your local promotional products company to print tee shirts for you.

Controversy with Cars

Take, for example; this company called Kohl's who sells tee shirts in America. Kohl's created this line of screen-printed tee shirts with an image of an old truck. The problem with the image is that the truck has been identified as a 70s Ford 150 while the body of the car is a 60's Chevrolet.

How big of a mistake is this? To put it into an Australian perspective, it is like putting a Holden Commodore logo and badge onto a Ford V8. Or you can compare it to putting the NSW State of Origin Team, onto a Queensland Maroon Tee shirt. This type of error leads to controversy and fistfights.

Avoid Controversy

So how to avoid controversial tee shirt designs? Ask a lot of people for opinions and do research.

Conclusion

Mistakes during printing can be expensive because they delay an entire project as delays cost more money than corrections after printouts have been produced. Checking every detail helps reduce costs associated with these types of issues arising down the line once production has already begun. It also goes a long way toward preventing customer dissatisfaction due to reducing incorrect or faulty products arriving on shelves or markets which may not align with the marketing message displayed on the packaging. 

For this reason, it’s imperative to thoroughly check everything from product descriptions to labels, any printed literature needs to be carefully examined prior to production. This includes checking details such as text accuracy, font colours and sizes, logo colour palettes along with background images.

Overall recognising the need to undertake reviews during pre-production checkpoints eliminates mistakes produced at later stages increasing produce-ability thus enabling manufacturing processes to run smoother while simultaneously preventing resource wastage that correcting problems afterward incurs - both time-wise and financially too.